Submit a paper

To submit a paper, at least one of the authors of
the paper has to be a member of the Econometric
Society. There is no submission fee or publishing
fee; membership of the Econometric Society by at
least one author is all that is required. If none of
the authors is a member of the Econometric Society,
please join at
http://www.econometricsociety.org/memb.asp .

Papers must be submitted as pdf files; the size of
the text font must be at least 12 point and the
spacing should be 1.5 or double spaced. Please
include each figure and table on the relevant page
in the paper; do not collect figures and tables at
the end of the paper. The list of references should
appear after any appendices, at the very end of the
paper.

Authors must post their submission on a publicly
available website. (Editors may grant exceptions to
this policy.)

A letter of submission need not be included unless
it contains information pertinent to the review
process. If the author has submitted related work
elsewhere, or does so during the term in which
Quantitative Economics is considering the
manuscript, then it is the author's responsibility
to provide Quantitative Economics with details. If
the submission is on a topic related to earlier
rejected submission to Quantitative Economics, the
author should describe the relation and explain why
he/she believes it is sufficient distinct to merit
independent review.

References cited in all published papers must be
published, available in a stable public archive
(like SSRN), or provided by the authors of the
manuscript at the time of final publication.
(Editors may grant exceptions to this policy.)

The editorial process at Quantitative Economics
is completely independent of that at Econometrica.
However, if your paper has been previously rejected
by Econometrica, in our submission process
you have the option of requesting the transfer of
the coeditor's decision letter, referees' reports,
and referees' covering letters directly from Econometrica
to us. (This transfer is completely optional. Not
revealing that you previously submitted your paper
to Econometrica is perfectly fine.) Note
there is a presumption that we will consult referees
different from the ones consulted by the Econometrica
coeditor. If you do request that the reports be
transferred from Econometrica, then you must
provide a cover letter describing how your
submission differs from the paper reviewed by Econometrica
and, in detail, how you have responded to the
referees' comments. If we use the same referees,
your description of your responses will be forwarded
to them.

In the ordinary course of events, we expect authors
who are offered the opportunity to submit a revised
version of their paper to return it within one year.
If a paper is returned after two years there will be
no presumption that it will be sent to the original
Co-Editor (especially if he/she has left the board.)